Twenty cents an hour. That is all some employees in America get for their hard work, and only because of their disabilities. Big change is way past due, and advocates spent the day on Capitol Hill lobbying congressional and other leaders to make it happen.
The committee of Keren Yisroel Aryeh Leib, a Gemach that benefits Many Crown Heights families, is inviting the community to join its annual Melava Malka, which was originally cancelled due to the blizzard and will instead take place this Motzai Shabbos at Beis Rivkah-310 Crown Street, beginning at 8:30pm.
Moishele and Soro Chana (nee Feldman) Gourarie (Toms River, NJ)
Rabbi Mendel Lipskar is the Executive Director of Chabad of South Africa. He also serves as the rabbi of the Shul at Hyde Pak in Johannesburg. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August of 2014.
Sholom Ber (ben Moshe) Scheinfeld (Crown Heights) and Malky Feigenson (Houston, TX)
While their wives were away attending the Kinus Hashluchos, Shluchim all over the country received a package of goodies at their doorstep, courtesy of MyShliach. One such Shliach, Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky of Doral, FL, wrote the following letter of appreciation.
A clothing salesman on trial for the serial slayings of three New York City shopkeepers – two of whom were Frum Jews- has been convicted of murder.
Two Boca Raton residents have filed a federal lawsuit against their city alleging it provided special treatment to the Chabad of East Boca, directed by Rabbi Ruvi New, by allowing it to build a new center on Boca Raton’s barrier island.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Asna Devorah (Asya) Dubrawsky OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights and wife of Rabbi Yehoshua Dubrawsky OBM. She was 85 years old.
While he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defended Chabad of Vermont’s public menorah, one of the first politicians in the country to do so. He later declared the Rebbe’s birthday, Yud aleph Nissan, as Education Day, which the Rebbe personally thanked him for in a letter.
Rabbi Yehoshua B. (Josh) Gordon, who passed away on Monday at the age of 66, speaks of the Rebbe’s directive to him and and his wife as they first set out on their Shlichus to the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, CA, in a video filmed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project.
A Lubavitcher man in his 30s was stabbed in the back by an African-American man on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights. The attacker fled the scene and is at large. The public is asked to please say Tehillim for Yehuda Leib ben Rivkah Alta.
A Jerusalem court issued a verdict ordering a young Lubavitcher woman to pay some 75,000 shekels after she was sued by her prospective groom for cancelling their wedding just over 2 weeks before it was set to take place.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Terumah. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we find strength to overcome the challenges of exile?
Yosef Yitzchok Raichik (Crown Heights) and Chana Steinmetz (S. Paulo, Brazil)
The University of Illinois has indefinitely suspended a softball player and suspended a men’s gymnast for their parts in vandalizing a Menorah in front of the Chabad Center. This was the third time the menorah had been vandalized this year.
When was the last time you had your dryer vent cleaned? Lint and debris can build up in your clothes dryer duct causing your dryer to exhaust at less than optimum efficiency. This creates potentially hazardous conditions including carbon monoxide intrusion and the possibility for fires.
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